Re: [Oorexx-devel] Tracked down problem with: compiler, Vista, ?

2009-04-26 Thread Rick McGuire
This looks like a classic optimizer bug to me. For some reason, the code generator has obviously decided it can used a cached version of the data pointer for the if test rather than reloadingbut it appears to make that decision only for the if test. It might be interesting to try declaring

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Tracked down problem with: compiler, Vista, ?

2009-04-26 Thread Rick McGuire
It's starting to look like upgrading to VS 2008 might be a winner for this. I'm more willing to make this change than switch to the new version of SysFile. Can the two version coexist on the same machine, or do I need to uninstall 2005 first? Rick On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 11:23 PM, Mark

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Tracked down problem with: compiler, Vista, ?

2009-04-26 Thread Mark Miesfeld
On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 4:49 AM, Rick McGuire object.r...@gmail.com wrote: It's starting to look like upgrading to VS 2008 might be a winner for this.  I'm more willing to make this change than switch to the new version of SysFile. I think upgrading to VS 2008 has less potential for letting

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Tracked down problem with: compiler, Vista, ?

2009-04-26 Thread Mark Miesfeld
On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 4:49 AM, Rick McGuire object.r...@gmail.com wrote: It's starting to look like upgrading to VS 2008 might be a winner for this.  I'm more willing to make this change than switch to the new version of SysFile.  Can the two version coexist on the same machine, or do I

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Tracked down problem with: compiler, Vista, ?

2009-04-26 Thread Rick McGuire
Did you forget to paste the link? On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 9:45 AM, Mark Miesfeld miesf...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 4:49 AM, Rick McGuire object.r...@gmail.com wrote: It's starting to look like upgrading to VS 2008 might be a winner for this.  I'm more willing to make this

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Tracked down problem with: compiler, Vista, ?

2009-04-26 Thread Mark Miesfeld
On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 6:58 AM, Rick McGuire object.r...@gmail.com wrote: Did you forget to paste the link? http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms246609.aspx Didn't have my coffee yet. grin -- Mark Miesfeld --

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Tracked down problem with: compiler, Vista, ?

2009-04-26 Thread Mark Miesfeld
On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 8:23 PM, Mark Miesfeld miesf...@gmail.com wrote: In working on the SysFileSearch bug, I tracked down what seems to be a case where the VS 2005 compiler produces wrong code and the VS 2008 produces code that works. Good thing I said seems to be. I was 100% wrong on